XVill CONTENTS 



summer tillage, 379 ; Summer tillage in Montana, 380 ; 

 Summer tillage in Saskatchewan, 381 ; Wind erosion 

 and soil blowing, 382 ; Prevention of soil blowing, 383 ; 

 Cereals as nurse crops, 384. Growing the Crop : Prep- 

 aration of the land for fall seeding, 385 ; Preparation of 

 the land for spring seeding, 386; Breaking and back- 

 setting, 387 ; The seed-bed, 388 ; Packing the soil, 389 ; 

 Methods of summer tillage, 390 ; The soil mulch, 391 ; 

 Time of fall seeding, 392 ; Time of spring seeding, 393 ; 

 Rate of seeding, 394 ; Depth of seeding, 395 ; Method 

 of seeding, 396 ; Cultivating growing cereals, 897 ; 

 Pasturing the grain crop, 398. Gathering the Crop : 

 Harvesting, 399 ; Shocking, 400 ; Stacking, 401 ; Thrash- 

 ing, 402. 



CHAPTER XV 

 CEREAL CULTIVATION WESTERN AREA .... 375-419 



Soil Treatment : Soils, 403 ; Topography and drain- 

 age, 404 ; Soil amendments, 405 ; Commercial fertilizers, 

 406 ; Humus, 407 ; Deficiency of humus, 408 ; Increas- 

 ing the humus, 409 ; Preservation of manure, 410 ; 

 Green-manuring, 411; The -crops adapted for green- 

 manuring, 412 ; Rotation of crops, 413 ; Summer tillage, 

 414; Summer tillage in Utah, 415; Summer tillage in 

 California, 416 ; Summer tillage in the Columbia Basin, 

 417 ; Soil blowing, 418 ; Burning the stubble, 419 ; Crop 

 burning or drying out, 420 ; Cover-crops, 421. Growing 

 the Crop : Methods of summer tillage, 422 ; Fall and 

 spring plowing, 423 ; Cooperative experiments in Utah, 

 424 ; Early and late plowing or disking, 425 ; Depth of 

 plowing, 426 ; Subsequent tillage for spring seeding, 427 ; 

 Summer tillage after plowing or disking, 428 ; Fall till- 

 age, 429 ; Treatment of new land, 430 ; Time of seeding, 

 431 ; Rate of seeding, 432 ; Depth of seeding, 433 ; Why 

 shallow seeding is preferable, 434 ; Method of seeding, 

 435 ; Cultivating grain, 436 ; Mowing or pasturing 

 cereals, 437 ; Hogging off wheat, 438 ; Hogging off bar- 

 ley, 439 ; Cereals in crop mixtures for pasturing, 440. 

 Gathering the Crop : Time of harvesting, 441 ; Cutting 



